Apr 1, 2008 - 
Gestures 
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Gestures 2 Comments Life Drawing – Archives
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When my website crashed, I lost the Gestures section, which had a nice weekly post of my life drawings. I re-photographed a few of my favorites and compiled them below as an archive. I’ll add a second archive once I figure out where I squirreled away my filled tablet from last year.
Edit: Found my filled tablet! I’ve added some new images below.
2 minute gestures:
20 – 40 minute poses:
40 minute nudes:
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Where are you taking the life drawing class? Very nice drawings!
Merry Christmas
HI Mary Beth! This was a few years ago at the Wyoming Valley Art League. Sue Obaza put together a life drawing group and took care of scheduling the models. We all split the cost of the model’s fee. I think we had about 8 artists regularly attend. There wasn’t any instruction, but we did have a nice regular routine of several 2 minute gestures followed by three 20 minute poses. Sometimes we would have the model keep the same pose for the 20 minute sketches, and have a 60 minute long pose. Mostly I used vine charcoal, and then some sanguine Derwent drawing pencils on toned paper for the long poses. I have to say that I’m really envious of the people who can get a good, solid drawing down in 20 minutes, looking at a model from across a room – a whole different experience that my work process with colored pencils!